haha.. My dream (for a long time) has been to become an optometrist or a Veterinarian Optometrist: Put on a rose colored set of lens and see the typical requirements for Japanese optometry . Veterinarian: Japanese set-up costs for an office exceed 80 million yen and J-banks are loath to loan to an ...
Lamers, Still trying to get attention... Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah! Ya missed us! UPDATE: N. Korea launches missile Posted 2/24/2003 7:57 PM SEOUL, South Korea (AP) —]fired an anti-ship missile [/u]that landed in the sea between the Korean Peninsula and Japan on Monday, a South Korean Defens...
Here state side the MD format is not all that popular. Just a few nich market people here and there. How about over there in japan, do many people use the MD in their every day commutes, or has mp3 just blown it out. MD was always biggest in Japan...more than anywhere else in the world. In particul...
a worthless fucking seal can.. Anyone up for some 'clubbing'? UPDATE!! Foreigners call for residency status like seal Tama-chan Sunday, February 23, 2003 at 07:00 JST YOKOHAMA -- About 20 foreign residents in Japan staged a rally Saturday calling on authorities to provide registry certificates for ...
for 80,000 yen, they better hand craft that bad boy. It better have a pearl shell handle, with an ivory emblem on the butt of the knife. Gold better be inlaid in the blade :p If not, ur getting ripped a new bumhole. Actually, I thought this thread was a some kind of veiled threat. The standard plot...
Fukui Nominated as Next BOJ Governor, LDP's Ohno Says Feb. 24 03:18pm (Bloomberg) -- Toshihiko Fukui was nominated by the Japanese government to head the country's central bank, prompting bonds to rise on expectations that he won't move quickly to end almost five years of deflation... investors vie...
Eng r ish and Vending in the news!!!! Fancy a Melty Kiss over a glass of Sweat? TOKYO CONFIDENTIAL / Japan Times / DaCapo (Feb. 19) machine makeover It takes your photograph, suggests a product and then you select the cosmetics of your choice without going near a shop. Billy Adams in Tokyo finds the...
hmm.. im trying to decide what to do.. my bmw has a sick system, cams, exhaust, suspension, 18's, intake,rieger body kit, etc.. will it get fucked over on the boat? oh and it has clears all around in addition to the tint..:P what do you thikn it would cost me total (shipping, tessts, etc..) maybe i...
REMINDER/warning to all FG: Japanese companies have a small standard clause in their employment contract that prohibits moonlighting. "A) 2) b) You may not accept employment in Japan, with or without remuneration." Is that the clause? :D Yep, and let's just say I've got my ram-chopped on ...
I was wondering how you guys came upon the opportunity to go to Japan and what you work as?? I came to Japan by mistake. I fix things. I studied Chinese in college and dead-ended here because of a Chinese work visa flap. Waiting for my Godot-visa, Maybe-the-Largest Inc. noticed that all my linguist...
... I was a child during the war, and posters of japanese soldiers killing babies, with blood dripping from thier teeth, were common place, and the propoganda, about thier bestiality, was incredible. Things like that remain buried in your mind. Sounds like my Mom, who once visited the Imperial Pala...
Anyone here teach private students part-time? What's the best way to go about it? Is ETC a good way to get started? Their rates sound reasonable to me. Whoa, Ramchop! You're chopping close to bone here. Read on... REMINDER/warning to all FG: Japanese companies have a small standard clause in their ...
This story was also reported on AFN radio and oddly nowhere else in Japan... Japan - Okinawa: Another Antrax Scare U.S. military post offices in Japan and Okinawa shut down Wednesday after two mail handlers at Naval Air Facility Atsugi reported their hands itched after touching a suspicious envelope...
Has anyody noticed an increase in the number of 419 spam emails lately? What was a once a week thing is now everyday!! They are really tiresome... Ahhhh, 419 missives... the joys of being a " Shacho ." Consider it a honor you receive so many. :lol: My favorite old joke 419 was: REQUEST FO...
I'm ready! http://www.interphysical.com/002/my-images/nokia.jpg Yikes! A NOO-kee-yer Nokia. Ok, I'll raise ya one "Mr. Fusion(tm)" http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:IORu2aVLDXsC:www.deloreanparts.com/blurprnt.gif for my 9mpg 1962 Cadillac. :lol:
Tokyo Electric Power Company, will be shutting down its last nuclear reactors by April 15th for inspections meaning that all the reactors have been shut down. Needless to say, TEPCO is whining more than a Boeing 777 about this since their Tokyo nuke power plants are all shut down for repairs and the...
Tama-chan to be Registered as Yokohama 'Resident' http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20030208wo61.htm Figures: A Korean born in Japan can't get residency, but a worthless fucking seal can.. Anyone up for some 'clubbing'? Here's a strange update... Tama-chan gets 100000 yen donation to go home Daily Yom...
I priced bringing over a mint 1990 Camaro RS, it was $1250. Taro, you care to share your info about the $600-800? I am seriously interested in this as well. Any links, numbers, adverts? Digging through the meishi file yesterday, I discovered that my "connection" in the Low-rider/car impor...
Whats up with his hair? A mini afro? lmao look at a pic of him!! Kin Jong or however you spell it.. :lol: The 3RD PLANETARY BROADCAST 'Black Wide Show' on late Satday night showed top-view pictures of Lit'l Kim taken by an "expert" showing that it's a surgically stapled-on nylon rug-- an ...
To be honest, I've been on the fence recently.. Actually, jumping back and forth over the fence. That's better than the cheese-eating Surrender Monkeys and ... French Ad Calls For Peace, Love And More Mattress Sales Yahoo News - 20 Feb 2003 "Make Love, Not War" - in French, "Faites L...
"Quantum entanglements"!? Dang. That sounds a hell like the dual-states couple of old girlfriends of mine. Quantum computing inches closer, say Japanese ABC Online, Australia - 20 Feb 2003 Ultra-fast quantum computers were now a step closer following a technological breakthrough claimed by...
Check out the MIG-19 blueprints at... http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/airdef/mig-19.htm http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/airdef/mig-19-farmr_p3.jpg The flat nose makes it look like a flying tube. Does Russia and China still use them? They look a little dated. DATED?! I'm offended. :( Hell,...
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/02/20/skorea.mig/index.html The North Korean MiG-19 flew past the northern limit line over the Yellow Sea near South Korea's Yongpyong Island. . I like the 'classic' look of the MiGs. Check out the MIG-19 blueprints at... http://blueprints.flightsim.ru/pri...
Troubled Times for a Telco Titan [DoCoMo] ...news coverage on DoCoMo has lately focused on foreign investments gone awry and software glitches plaguing its high-speed 3G FOMA service. ...analysts say DoCoMo needs to redefine its strategy abroad. The company should be frugal, they say, but when it d...
What? No Japanese is interested in fighting with Iraq. First, that is not true. "No" Japanese is interested in fighting" with Iraq. Period. Ok, ok, I underlined "no" for good reason. Ask your Japanese friends, coworkers, and neighbors: nobody supports an Iraq war. Actually,...